Re: [PATCH 5/7] Implement 'p' option for diffing dist conffiles during conflict resolution

2011-05-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
sean finney wrote: > Yeah I don't think we got to the point where we were considering > issues like that. I'd guess that the menu should be made more flexible > so that if the required conffiledb data isn't there for any reason that > it falls back to the old behavior/options. Yep, agreed. A he

Re: [PATCH 5/7] Implement 'p' option for diffing dist conffiles during conflict resolution

2011-05-06 Thread sean finney
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:11:30AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > It might make sense to consider the patches up to here as something > to polish and make mergeable to start out. It would already be useful. Agreed :) > What happens if the previously configured version was installed before > con

[PATCH 5/7] Implement 'p' option for diffing dist conffiles during conflict resolution

2011-05-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
From: Sean Finney Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:27:35 +0100 A new option is presented to the user in the conffile resolution prompt, offering to show the diff between the previous dist version of the conffile and the new dist version of the conffile. This can be useful for the local admin to know wha

Re: [PATCH 5/7] Implement 'p' option for diffing dist conffiles during conflict resolution

2009-12-14 Thread Matthew Woodcraft
Sean Finney wrote: > A new option is presented to the user in the conffile resolution > prompt, offering to show the diff between the previous dist version of > the conffile and the new dist version of the conffile. This can be > useful for the local admin to know what has changed in the latest > v

[PATCH 5/7] Implement 'p' option for diffing dist conffiles during conflict resolution

2009-12-13 Thread Sean Finney
A new option is presented to the user in the conffile resolution prompt, offering to show the diff between the previous dist version of the conffile and the new dist version of the conffile. This can be useful for the local admin to know what has changed in the latest version of the package in the